Annual report on hospitals and dispensaries in Burma.

  • Burma.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Annual report on hospitals and dispensaries in Burma. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Municipal Corporation of Rangoon opened a dispensary at Tamwe and also a Tuberculosis clinic. There were thus 301 hospitals at the end of the year. 3. New Construction.—Among the important works carried out during the year was an additional female ward at Maymyo, an operation theatre at Yandoon, a ward at Danubyu (donated by U Po Seik and Daw Ohn Pan), an isolation ward at Henzada (donated by Daw Mya of Henzada) and a maternity ward at Monywa. The female ward at Syriam was extended and the water supply scheme of the Civil Hospital, Thongwa, was completed. An additional ward in the Military Police Hospital, Lashio, was in process of construction. Mention should also be made of the generous and handsome donations given by Mr. B. Purcell of Mandalay, for the construction of two new Nurses Homes, one at Mandalay and the other at Maymyo, and an Anglo- Indian Ward at Maymyo, and an extension of the eye department of the Mandalay Hospital. Mr. Purcell also very kindly donated a sum of Rs. 10,000 for a new X-Ray apparatus for the Maymyo Civil Hospital, and an X-Ray apparatus costing Rs. 15,000 for the Mandalay Hospital. The gynaecological work has been moved from the Rangoon General Hospital to the Dufferin Hospital, Rangoon, thus opening up 72 more beds. The system of charging Re. 1 per bed in four wards of the Rangoon General Hospital and one ward of the Dufferin Hospital was started during the last month of the year. Statement B. 4. Indian Medical Service.—The sanctioned number of Indian Medical Service Officers remained the same as in previous years, viz., 30 plus a reserve of 8. The number of officers on the roll on the 1st January 1935 was 33. During the year four officers were transferred to Burma, one was re-transferred to India, and one retired from the service, thus leaving 35 officers on the roll at the end of the year. Of these eight were on leave, two on Foreign Service, and four were filling non-reserve appointments leaving only 21 officers to fill 30 sanctioned appointments. For the 25 appointments sanctioned for the medical department there were only 16 officers available, of whom live held the live specialist appointments in Rangoon, and the remainder held 11 of the 19 Civil Surgeoncies allotted for them. 5. Indian Medical Department.—The sanctioned cadres of Civil Surgeoncies and Subordinate appointments for the medical department reserved for officers of the Indian Medical Department are seven and three respectively. The number employed at the beginning of the year